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Two teams that were good to bettors this season meet in the Dollar General Bowl on Saturday, as the Buffalo Bulls take on the Troy Trojans on ESPN. The Bulls went 10-3 SU and a profitable 9-4 against the spread this season, while the Trojans were 9-3 SU and 8-3-1 against the number. The Trojans will have most of the crowd in their favor, as the game takes place in Mobile. Let’s look at this game and live betting at BookMaker.eu.... 

Two teams that were money losers for bettors meet on Thursday night in the Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa, Florida, as the Marshall Thundering Herd take on the South Florida Bulls. The Thundering Herd went 8-4 SU this season, but they were just 4-8 ATS, while the Bulls finished 7-5 SU, and 4-8 ATS. South Florida is hoping that quarterback Blake Barnett will be available, but he is ... 

Points should be fast and furious on Saturday in the Birmingham Bowl, as the Memphis Tigers take on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in a game that can be seen on ESPN. The Tigers finished the regular season in the top 10 in scoring at 43.6 points per game, while the Demon Deacons were 39th in the country, averaging 32.5 points per contest. Neither team has much of a defense, as they both a... 

The MAC will get the spotlight this week in college football bowl games, with five of their teams playing, including the Ohio Bobcats who host the San Diego State Aztecs on Wednesday night in the Frisco Bowl on ESPN. The Bobcats finished in a tie for second in the East this season and come into this game at 8-4 overall. The Aztecs are 7-5 and finished a disappointing fourth in the West div... 

Bill Clark has done an incredible job. The UAB Blazers shut down their football program after the 2014 season due to interference from outside forces. In one of the shadiest back room deals, the program was killed because it was deemed to be unprofitable, but upon further review, it was found to be very profitable. That led to a public outcry and the announcement that the school would bring back the football team in 2017. Clark was the coach during this chaotic period, and he not only made UAB r... 

I do declare that the most sparsely attended bowl game of the season might be the Camellia Bowl. This year’s edition will pit the 7-5 Eastern Michigan Eagles against the 9-3 Georgia Southern Eagles. This is the first time these two teams have ever met, and both programs are looking for rare bowl victories. Georgia Southern has been to just one bowl game before this, while this is Eas... 

The Appalachian State Mountaineers are favored on Saturday night, as they take on the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in the New Orleans Bowl on ESPN. It will be interesting to see how the Mountaineers handle this game, as head coach Scott Satterfield left for Louisville last month. Defensive line coach Mark Ivey will be the interim coach for this game. The Blue Raiders com... 

Some of the bowl season feels like a slog, but there’s going to be plenty of excitement on Saturday when the Fresno State Bulldogs and Arizona State Sun Devils face off in the Las Vegas Bowl. The Bulldogs are the second-best Group of Five team in the country, and they will want to prove themselves against the Sun Devils. However, the more fun aspect of this game is the l... 

Since taking over the program, Seth Littrell has had a lot of success with the North Texas Mean Green. He has taken the Mean Green to three straight bowl appearances, and Littrell has been the best coach we have seen in Denton since Darrell Dickey took North Texas to four straight Sun Belt titles. The only thing Littrell hasn’t done is win a bowl game, and he is out to do that in the

The North Carolina A&T Aggies didn’t finish the season undefeated like they did last year, but they still have a chance to make history when they take on the Alcorn State Braves in this year’s Celebration Bowl. The Aggies have won two of the last three Celebration Bowls, and a victory here would give them three win in four years. The Celebration Bowl pits the winner of the MEAC against the winner of the SWAC and has determined which Division I school wins the HBCU national championship since... 

Only four bluebloods remain alive in the quest to be declared national champions. At this point, the process is old hat for both Clemson and Alabama. Alabama has made it to here in all five seasons the College Football Playoff has been an existence, and Clemson has made it to the last four. The Crimson Tide have gone is as the No. 1 or No. 2 seed in all but one season, while the Tigers have been No. 1 or No. 2 in all four of their appearances.... 

The Clemson Tigers and Notre Dame Fighting Irish are both undefeated on the season, but one is the clear favorite when they face off in the College Football Playoff’s national Semifinals at the end of this month.... 

The Alabama Crimson Tide will begin its quest to win another national championship with a Semifinal Matchup against the Oklahoma Sooners. Even though Alabama almost lost to Georgia in the SEC championship game, that isn’t making the oddsmakers doubt them much in this one.... 

The annual Army-Navy game is so huge it needs its own weekend. The 119th tilt between the service academies is the only FBS game played this weekend and all eyes will be on the Cadets as they look for their 10th win of the season and their third straight over the Middies with a chance to claim the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. It’s been a magical season for the Black Knights, who entered the national rankings for the first time since 1996 with a win over Colgate a few weeks ago. Army has won seve... 

There are some years in which the college football championship seems like it could go to any of the four teams in the College Football Playoff. This is not one of those years.... 

Week 14 was derided by many as being meaningless with Conference championship games that were virtual exhibition games with lucrative TV contracts being the only reason for them. But in the Big 12 Conference the championship game proved to be incredibly valuable. Four years ago, the Big 12 was left out of the college football playoff despite having two strong teams in the Baylor Bears and TCU Horned Frogs. But the league didn’t have a championship game and was rejected out of hand due to a missi... 

It’s a light slate of games on the Week 14 college football schedule as the regular season comes to an end for every team except Army and Navy. But it’s also championship week and all 10 FBS conferences will crown their 2018 titleist over the weekend. With league championships, bowl game implications and College Football Playoff positioning at stake, this is certainly the most important week of the season. We haven’t witnessed any significant movement on the early lines as bettors are likely wai... 

The Week 13 Fade the Public Plays ended up cashing in. For the first time in weeks, my plays ended up being profitable, and I even hit a nice moneyline dog to boot. Baylor was a six-point favorite against Texas Tech this weekend, but the Bears won 35-24 to become bowl eligible. The Big 12 proved to be doubly good to me as Kansas covered the spread against Texas in David Beaty’s last game in Lawrence, but the SEC was not so kind. Arkansas never stood a chance of covering against Missouri and put ... 

Last week was an unmitigated disaster. Two of my total plays never had a chance, and while I was a bit unlucky with the third, it was still a loss. Losing the under in Florida and Florida State was somewhat unfortunate. The Seminoles couldn’t move the ball against the Gators well at all, and so Florida State’s defense eventually burst in the second half, allowing 28 points to push the game over the total.... 

It is conference championship week, and even though some of the best teams in college football are playing, there are many games with a large spread. Instead of jumping on them individually, the best idea is to parlay the picks in order to have a better payout.... 

The list of contenders for the national championship has shrunk, with the Michigan Wolverines out of it after their loss to Ohio State. The Buckeyes’ odds have improved but they still aren’t among the top three. The team to beat, of course, is the Alabama Crimson Tide, which opened the year as the No. 1 team and has done nothing to dispel that notion.... 

The Boise State Broncos and Fresno State Bulldogs were near mirror images of each other in the regular season. They each went 10-2 overall and 7-1 in the Mountain West, and it seems apropos that they will meet for the conference championship crown.... 

Just one more game. The Clemson Tigers need to win just one more game to make it to the College Football Playoff for the fourth straight year. Although many consider Alabama the gold standard in college football, Clemson has made a strong case for itself over these last few seasons. The Tigers have finished the regular season ranked as one of the top two teams in the country in each of the last three years, and an undefeated year would make it four straight. That’s something Alabama can’t even s... 

The nation’s longest winning streak is in serious danger. The Central Florida Knights have won 24 games in a row, but they are headed into their conference championship without their starting quarterback. McKenzie Milton suffered a serious knee injury early in UCF’s 38-10 win over arch-rival USF, and now they must face the Memphis Tigers without him. Memphis gave UCF its toughest test so far this season, only losing to the Knights by just one point in a game many believe the Tigers should have w... 

Week 14 will conclude with a Saturday night matchup that is a classic David vs. Goliath situation. The Ohio State Buckeyes rallied last week to put their best game of the year together in a memorable win over the favored Michigan Wolverines. With the victory the Bucks stole the Big Ten East Division title from the Maize and Blue. Meanwhile the opportunistic Northwestern Wildcats captured the West Division title. And while the West Division was weak and down the Wildcats closed strong and get the...